i want to batch mark a bunch of materials as assets using python. right now the only process i can see is done though bpy.ops.asset.mark() operator in the outliner on a clicked material data block. i can automate the operator to run in outliner via a custom context, but i can’t figure out how to get it to target a specific material data block.
is this just too early days of asset browser to consider automation?
Did you find a solution to this?
sadly i haven’t been investigating the asset browser any further lately, but hopefully some functionality eventually surfaces for this!
After a bit of messing around I found “asset_mark()” and “asset_clear()”
Here are some examples (you can use .asset_mark() and .asset_clear() on loads of other things, these are just a few):
bpy.data.objects[0].asset_mark()
bpy.data.meshes[0].asset_mark()
bpy.data.materials[0].asset_mark()
bpy.data.textures[0].asset_mark()
Replace .asset_mark() with .asset_clear() in the above examples to unmark assets.
You can very easily mark all your materials as assets by doing this:
for mat in bpy.data.materials:
mat.asset_mark()
i made a small addon with this functionality. It requires blender 3
Nice, i used this functionality in my addon “assetlibrarytools”, which also let’s you unmark all assets
I added options to mark Assets in all blend file that is contained in a specified Asset library.
This will run each blend file from the command line and mark the assets so please be aware that there is potential danger.
there are some issues i noticed:
I’m developping an addon to do just that, and with working automatic previews. You can check it out there : Batch mark assets and generate previews from library files
